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From: Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>
Subject: Re: How to tell which *.el file loaded?
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 10:38:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <?fnord?87lljf4jgj.fsf@ID-97657.usr.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: c91mju$i11$1@reader2.panix.com

bill wrote:

> Is there a simple way to confirm which of several possible foo.el
> files in the system was loaded by (require 'foo) ?  (I'm thinking
> along the lines of something I can stick in the desired foo.el that
> will confirm to me that it was it that was loaded by (require 'foo)
> .)

Doing (locate-library "foo") will tell you which foo.el or
foo.elc Emacs found.  Emacs prefers byte-compiled (foo.elc) over
source (foo.el) files, so, should you modify foo.el, and a
foo.elc exists, you'll have to recompile it.

You can also look at the output of

M-x list-load-path-shadows RET

-- 
Lawrence Mitchell <wence@gmx.li>

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-26  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-26  9:05 How to tell which *.el file loaded? bill
2004-05-26  9:38 ` Lawrence Mitchell [this message]
2004-05-26  9:43 ` Kai Grossjohann
     [not found] ` <mailman.7474.1085565100.1061.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-05-26 15:43   ` Kevin Rodgers

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